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Alliance (www.pistoiaalliance.org) has tried to take the learning from these
other groups and understand how they were able to deliver collabora-
tive value.
1.3.3
How Does Pistoia Plan to Differentiate Itself?
There are various factors that we believe make the Pistoia Alliance work
slightly differently, including a changing economic environment that is forcing
more collaboration and improvements in software design that focus on soft-
ware services which allow a high level of abstraction and hence more oppor-
tunity for cross-company integration. The high-level business processes
executed within this sector are very similar between different organizations,
and the further appreciation that there is considerable overlap and commonal-
ity in the processes executed within the sector has made groups question what
is competitive advantage and what are supporting assets that could share some
common design (Fig. 1.4 ).
A key element for the establishment of the Pistoia Alliance was ensuring
that the life science business needs were the driving force for the development
of common standards and approaches in the group rather than simply a
technology/solutions focused view. Hence the projects that have evolved in
the fi rst build of the Pistoia Alliance program are intended to show these
drivers from developing service requirements (sequence services) and an open
Pistoia Collaborative Working
e.g. 3 parties working together
Past
- Independence
Emerging
- Open Collaboration
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overlap
We have all worked
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Agreeing the precompetitive
space, allows for
collaboration on standards
and services
separately on our
environments and with
partners since we had
budget and people
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As Is
- Sequence Services
Vision
- Sequence Services
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rd
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Develop services that allow
decommissioning of internal
services at lower or
Companies replicate much
of the same functionality
and internally host external
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equivalent costs. Also allows
for future enhancement
costs to be shared
content to ensure high
service levels and privacy
Figure 1.4
Pistoia Alliance collaborative working model.
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